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Slava Malamud
SlavaMalamud
My American friends and colleagues often ask me how the 1980 Miracle on Ice was covered in the USSR. It's a good question. I was 5, and it was likely
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Tom Tomorrow needs a new bit for the profile
tomtomorrow
I have been sort of obsessed with this statue, ever since buying a small replica of it at the old sixth ave flea markets back in the late 90shttps://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357325924761411584 It's
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RoS
ohwhatawaytogo
Thread on revisionism, because a lot of people, I think, either misunderstand what it is in a Marxist sense or have very rudimentary understandings. Revisionism, when referred to in a
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Georgios Zagkas
GZagkas
1/The Vympel K-13 (aka R-3S or AA-2 Atoll), a Thread:It was a heat seeker missile, basically a reverse engineered AIM-9 Sidewinder. The AIM-9 came in possession of the USSR in
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Michael McFaul
McFaul
After climate change, competing with China is the next most important security challenge for the United States in the 21st century. The Trump team has framed this struggle as Cold
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
Re-reading Evgenii Primakov's memoir, Meetings at Crossroads: https://www.litres.ru/evgeniy-primakov/vstrechi-na-perekrestkah-10328957/chitat-onlayn/. At one point he delves into a discussion of Western aid to the USSR (or, rather, its
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Justin Pyke
CBI_PTO_History
The Zero fighter wasn't "countered" as if it was so unique that it was unbeatable until it was suddenly rendered hopeless. The Allies began the war relatively unfamiliar with it,
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Optimistic Fridge Intern🦁🇺🇲
fridgeintern
Electoral thought experiment.What if in the election of 1820 a candidate cheated so dramatically and so obviously it shattered faith in the system?Well in 1820 there was no popular vote
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Nicole Grajewski
NicoleGrajewski
Recall the Feb 2018 Russian veto of resolution on Iranian violation of arms embargo in Yemen was described as the “1st Russian veto of an anti-Iranian resolution since the hostage
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Jason A. Higgins
JasonAHiggins
When Truman made the decision to drop the first bomb, Japan had been effectively defeated, firebombed, blockaded, bleeding, sorrounded & starving. The highest ranking officials thought it was unnecessary. Nagasaki
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Hugo Greenhalgh
hugo_greenhalgh
1/7) "'The Beatles' are four pleasant-voiced pop singers, for whom foolish girls swoon over in crowds – as crowds always do when their idols appear."The #LGBTQ Diaries of Mr Lucas
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Mark Noonan
Mark_E_Noonan
This has caused some controversy! And some good arguments; I'm pleased with that. Less pleased with the dimwits who merely take it and overlay their Racism Narrative on it. But
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Ran Back to 🇻🇦 Mestizo 🇲🇽
AveCristoRey
A threadByzantine Catholic martyrs who refused to schism when pressured by the USSR. Who were going to be made Patriarchs and bishops but they knew that nothing was worth schism
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Aaron Bady
zunguzungu
To what extent did Bobby Fischer popularize chess in the United States, through and because of the cold war metanarrative? I ask because wow, The Queen's Gambit is such an
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
Spent a few hours reading the Soviet records on the deep freeze in Soviet-US relations in the early 1980s. Moscow resented US pressure on human rights, on Afghanistan, on Poland.
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Andrei Cherny
AndreiCherny
It seems like an ordinary story. An old urban airport is shutting down. The facilities are worn out. The neighbors complain about the noise. The runways can’t handle modern jumbo
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